And these are of course the people who've foolishly bought all the Tangerine 2.0 lies. It is still atrocious, but my thesis is that most urban dwelling people of limited means, and many people of color generally, still live in blue zones and blue states. In sum, where state safety nets exist -- and real bio-science still holds sway. Here's a bit from STAT+:
. . .Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the activist-turned-politician with a long history of embracing anti-scientific views, will become the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Senators voted 52-48 on Thursday to confirm Kennedy to the role. Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voted against RFK Jr., as did all Democrats. . . .
Wow -- what a surreal time (in some respects), indeed. In proof of this, but not relatedly, Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Tangerine 2.0 politicos now leading the US Justice Department told her she must dismiss her indicted case against Mayor Adams. Crazy -- except that Trump has decided bribes aren't real crimes at all. Since he's in that same barrel, but for Chief Justice Roberts' strange opinion. [Most of America disagrees with him on that.]
Onward -- just the same.
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StatNews reported the following occurring at the same time as the confirmation vote:
House Budget Committee Republicans will be marking up a bill with $880 billion in potential cuts to the Medicaid program that the HHS secretary oversees.
The House budget reconciliation bill, introduced yesterday, does not mention Medicaid by name. But it directs the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, to come up with $880 billion in cuts. Adding work requirements to Medicaid, which is viewed as the most achievable Medicaid reform, would save $100 billion over a decade.
Senate Republicans also have begun considering their own, narrower budget reconciliation bill. They want to quickly move on energy policy, and border and defense spending, which are not expected to involve Medicaid cuts. Tax cuts and corresponding Medicaid offsets would be handled later in a second budget reconciliation bill under the Senate Republican approach.
So there may well be problems in blue states too.
Thank you -- and you are certainly right. I tend to look for an upside, in all things. In this one, there are "no winners."
The idea that you are frail enough to be on Medicaid, but must find gainful employment, to remain eligible is. . . frankly. . . insane. [The red states tried this as the ACA of 2010 rolled out through the states. It utterly. . . failed.]
There will be greeters, I suppose, at the Wal-marts -- in red states. . . dropping dead, by the hundreds, if not thousands -- around the nation.
This is. . . barbarism.
But thank you. Excellent info.
Namaste. . . .
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